18,000 s/f education center opens at Intrepid Museum.A celebration at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum last week marked the opening of the Michael Tyler Fisher Center for Education--an 18,000 square foot, state-of-the-art, educational complex created to benefit the children and teachers of the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. public schools. Its mission is to promote qualities of leadership and responsibility in NYC's young people, and to provide educational workshops in areas of science and history to supplement their classroom learning. "We are extremely proud to announce the opening of the Michael Tyler Fisher Center for Education," said Arnold Fisher, Chairman of the Board of the Intrepid Museum and grandfather of Michael Tyler Fisher, for whom the Center is named. "Michael was intelligent, curious and always eager to learn more. We established this Center, to honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. his memory, so that New York's schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school could learn about the important values embodied em·bod·y tr.v. em·bod·ied, em·bod·y·ing, em·bod·ies 1. To give a bodily form to; incarnate. 2. To represent in bodily or material form: in the Intrepid and its history of service. We hope the Center becomes a beloved destination for future generations of our youth, and what they learn here helps shape their understanding of our city, our nation, and our world." The opening ceremony was highlighted with the presentation of a personal check in the amount of $500,000 from Karli and Jim Hagedorn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Scotts Company, to help fund the Center's educational programs. "We are deeply grateful to Jim and Karli for their tremendous generosity Generosity See also Aid, Organizational; Kindness. Abbé Constantin self-sacrificing priest; curé of Longueral. [Fr. Lit.: The Abbé Constantin, Walsh Modern, 105] Amelia takes interest in Paul. [Br. Lit. ," said Colonel Tom L. Tyrrell, USMC (ret.), Executive Director and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the Intrepid Museum. "The Michael Tyler Fisher Center for Education is an outstanding addition to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. We believe that this facility will help us reach out to the younger generation, and demonstrate for them, in myriad Myriad is a classical Greek name for the number 104 = 10 000. In modern English the word refers to an unspecified large quantity. The term myriad is a progression in the commonly used system of describing numbers using tens and hundreds. , compelling ways, the continued relevance of our nation's history." The three-level Michael Tyler Fisher Center for Education is comprised of classrooms, breakout rooms, and a 3,200-square foot, glass-enclosed meeting space that can accommodate up to 240 people. Instead of 'Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmetic' which are the focus of the schools, the Center will focus on three entirely different "R"s--Respect, Remembrance and Responsibility. "Using the exhibits and powerful symbolism Symbolism In art, a loosely organized movement that flourished in the 1880s and '90s and was closely related to the Symbolist movement in literature. In reaction against both Realism and Impressionism, Symbolist painters stressed art's subjective, symbolic, and decorative which are everywhere on this historic ship, around every corner of the Museum, a lesson is there for the making. Kids love to learn here--that is what makes this place such a valuable educational tool," said Fredda L. Plesser, Executive Director of the Center. The Center will provide four main educational programs: after-school programming in character and leadership, increased and improved capacity for educational visits for school groups, professional development for educators. |
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